Push notification payload

Current inner push notification payload:

• title - usually username, e.g. John Doe
• message - message description text (e.g. posted Learn to fly
• image - notification image URL
• count - badge count
• P.V. not sure if we need it here at all
• additionalData
• additionalData
  • badgeCount -- the same as count above
• type -- type of push notification, e.g. boosted_post
• actions -- action buttons, only on Android
  • example: [{"callback":"app.upvote","icon":"Upvote","title":"Upvote"}]
• entity
  • target
    • id -- e.g. post ID
    • type -- e.g. post
    • other attributes, e.g. commentID

example:

{"message":"posted: try boost 2","image":"http://powerline-dev.imgix.net/avatars/577cb68e6f276.jpeg?dpr=0.75&h=400&ixlib=php-1.1.0&w=320","title":"Peter10 Is Leader","count":"13","additionalData":{"collapse_key":"do_not_collapse","type":"follow-post-created","additionalData":{"badgeCount":13},"foreground":true,"actions":[{"callback":"app.upvote","icon":"Upvote","title":"Upvote"}],"coldstart":false,"entity":{"target":{"id":350,"body":"try boost 2","image":"577cb68e6f276.jpeg","type":"post","full_name":"Peter10 Is Leader"},"id":2293}}} 

The structure above has following drawbacks:

• there is type twice, but they have different meaning, one is push notification type and other is entity type..
• badge count is there twice
• I do not understand why there is additionalData twice : additionalData.additionalData.badgeCount
• it is useless to dive that deep the reach entity details (i.e. target.entity), which leads to such complicated if conditions
• the push notification types should use unified format: -, e.g. post-created.

Here is example how the notification should look like:

• title - usually username, e.g. John Doe
• message - message description text (e.g. posted Learn to fly
• image - notification image URL
• badgeCount - badge count
• additionalData
• notificationType -- type of push notification, e.g. boosted_post
• actions -- action buttons, only on Android
  • example: [{"callback":"app.upvote","icon":"Upvote","title":"Upvote"}]
• entity
  • id -- e.g. post ID
  • type -- e.g. post-created
  • other attributes, e.g. commentID